Three Bosnian Muslims suspected of killing Serb civilian and military prisoners in the Srebrenica region at the start of the 1992-1995 war were arrested Monday, prosecutor's office said.
The three -- former members of Bosnian Muslim armed forces arrested in the northern town of Tuzla -- are suspected to have killed 10 Serb civilians who surrendered when the village of Zalazje came under attack on July 12, 1992, the prosecutor said in a statement.
Three of the civilians were killed in front of Srebrenica police station while seven were driven off in a truck in an unknown direction and were never seen alive again, the statement said. Their remains were later found in mass graves.
One of the suspects is additionally accused of having killed a prisoner-of-war on June 21, 1992, in another village near Srebrenica.
Sixty-nine civilians were killed when Muslim forces attacked Zalazje and three other villages on July 12, 1992, according to Bosnian Serb associations of families of the victims.
No-one has ever been convicted for the crimes, families of the victims say.
In July 1995, Srebrenica was the scene of a mass execution of some 8,000 Muslim men and boys by Bosnian Serb forces.
It was considered to be the worst atrocity in Europe since the World War II and two international courts described it as an act of genocide.
More than 3,200 Bosnian Serb civilians and soldiers were killed during the inter-ethnic war in the Srebrenica region and nearby town of Bratunac, according to Bosnian Serb associations of victims' families.
The former Muslim commander of Srebrenica, Naser Oric, acquitted by a UN court for war crimes in the Srebrenica region, is currently on trial before a local Bosnian court for the murder of three Serb prisoners in 1992.